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Like fantasyfan, I really loved the book. I thought I had read it before, but couldn't find it in any of my lists.
How many nods to THHGTTG series did everyone catch? Two jumped out at me. The first was Richard’s obvious “Do you always carry a towel around in your briefcase?” question to Dirk, and the second was this less obvious comment from Reg: “[T]he actual distance between two points in the whole of the space/time continuum is almost infinitely smaller than the apparent distance between adjacent orbits of an electron. Really, it’s a lot less far than the chemist, and there’s no waiting about at the till.” The second seems to be in contradiction (although I can see how the two are really different ways of seeing the same thing) with the HHGTTG’s claim that “Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”
So how many did I miss?
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